Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Phillips, S. A. April 24, 1834 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Phillips, S.A., Russia, was born April 24, 1834, in Hammond, N.Y., a son of 
Samuel, who was a son of Samuel Phillips, a native of England, who settled in 
Rensselaer county, near Hoosac Falls.  He was in the Revolutionary war.  Mr. 
Phillips was twice married and had five children by his first wife.  His first 
wife was Betsey Allen, youngest sister of Ethan Allen, of Revolutionary fame.  
He married second Mrs. Baker, by whom he had four children.  Samuel Phillips, 
jr., was born in Rensselaer county, 1797.  He married Emily Wightman, a native 
of Trenton and a daughter of Eleazar Wightman, and to them were born five 
children.  Mrs. Phillips died in 1841 and he married Paulina McMaster, of 
Russia, by whom he had one child.  He was in the war of 1812.  His son, 
Leander, in 1861 enlisted in the Second New York Light Artillery, but was 
transferred to the One Hundred and Seventeenth New York Infantry and served 
until the close of the war.  Mr. Phillips died in 1877, and his wife died in 
1885.  Subject was reared on the old homestead in Russia.  In 1855 he married 
Martha Emory, a native of Oswego county, whose parents were early settlers.  
To Mr. Phillips and wife have been born four children:  Clara V. and Clinton, 
deceased, Allen J. and Frank J., the former residing on his father's farm and 
working in the tub factory with his father.  His wife is Cora Baker, of Oswego 
county, and they have five children:  George A., Clara, Clinton, Samuel and 
May, all of whom are living.  Frank J. is a graduate of Fairfield and Holland 
Patent schools and holds a New York State diploma.  He is at present a teacher 
in the commercial department of the University at Fort Worth, Texas.  His wife 
is Blanche Ward, a native of North Carolina.  S. A. Phillips is a farmer and 
also has a tub factory with first-class machinery and carries on a successful 
business.  He is a Republican. He and family attend and support the M.E. and 
Unitarian churches at Trenton.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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